Development Studies

Published in 1999, this is a collection of recent research results by acknowledged researchers in the field of enterprise transformation and indust...

This book considers the causes of high-level state corruption as well as the political constraints of countering corruption in Africa. It examines ...

The movement of displaced people, migrants and refugees has become increasingly important around the world, leading to a need for increased scrutin...

Faced with significant security challenges, in recent years Japan and South Korea have both sought to raise their international profile through pea...

Any city is a product of politics and economics, organizations and people. Yet, the life experiences of women uprooted from its poorest quarters se...

Climate change and environmental degradation have intensified the pressures on crucial resources such as food and water security and air quality. I...

Despite global economic disparities, recent years have seen rapid technological changes in developing countries, as it is now common to see people ...

The Routledge Handbook of Entrepreneurship in Developing Economies is a landmark volume that offers a uniquely comprehensive overview of entreprene...

International institutions and agencies from the Global North are no longer the sole initiators of development norms and best practices. The prolif...

Peacekeeping training centres play a crucial role in preparing peacekeepers for their deployment. However, despite their popularity within the inte...

Since the group of least developed countries (LDCs) was identified in 1971, only five countries have graduated from the group, all of which are cha...

With the spread of capitalism - a socio-economic system that produces both wealth and poverty simultaneously - the spatial dynamics of the global(i...

This book focuses on different aspects of initiativesto check pollution and to reduce consumption of fossil fuelsby the Association of Southeast As...

Democratisation is a formidable task in the Himalayan region owing to its immense cultural heterogeneity. The process of democratisation has accent...

This book provides a broad, interdisciplinary overview of the major facets of Indonesia's contemporary agricultural and rural development, while ex...

This book provides a detailed examination of the impact of globalisation on plantation labour, dominated by women labour, in India. The studies pre...

The onset of the global crisis has emphasised the persistence of substantial differences in development and social progress within the euro area. T...

This book explores the relationship between the state, development policy, and gender (in)equality in India. It discusses the formation of state po...

Why do aid agencies from wealthy donor countries with diverse domestic political and economic contexts arrive at very similar positions on a wide a...

This volume is a collection of articles dealing with various dimensions of the Global Financial Crisis and its economic and social impact in terms ...

This book tracks the trajectory of gender in the social sciences and humanities through an exploration of the challenges and contradictions that co...

The history of China dates back thousands of years, with periods of decline followed by periods of growth and innovation. This book puts the last 5...

This ground breaking volume raises radical critiques and proposes innovative solutions for social sustainability in the built environment. Urban So...

Cities in the 21st Century provides an overview of contemporary urban development. Written by more than thirty major academic specialists from diff...

The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has established itself as one of the most powerful private forces in global politics, shaping the trajectorie...

The question of why countries give aid and assistance to other countries has long been a topic of debate- is it altruism, or selfishness? The assum...

In the twenty-first century technology has become global, and firms compete using knowledge and capital. The traditional firm has a need for innova...

This book demonstrates how agriculture can play a determining role in integrated, climate-optimised urban development. Agriculture within urban gro...

The vast majority of the worlds population lives on or near the coast. These communities are an extraordinary and largely untapped resource that ca...

Most, if not all of the global biogeochemical cycles on the earth have been broken or are at dangerous tipping points. These broken cycles have exp...

This book endeavors to take the conceptualization of the relationship between business, government and development in African countries to a new le...

This book explores the complex problem of how to measure the success of social organisations, projects and activities. Whether improving a local si...

The UN Security Council has been given the primary responsibility for maintaining international peace and security. The precise meaning of this res...

First published in 1998, this book provides a broad but in-depth description of the issues, concepts, methods of analysis, and empirical results re...

Virtually all pertinent issues that the world faces today such as nuclear proliferation, climate change, the spread of infectious disease and econ...

Africa is well known for the production of national liberation movements (NLMs), stemming from a history of exploitation, colonisation and slavery....

Since independence in 1965, Singapore has developed its own unique approach to managing the diversity of Race, Religion, Culture, Language, Nationa...

Sustainable development is an internationally recognised objective for governments, businesses and societies. However, how the private sector engag...

In 1994, BRAC, the world's largest NGO, made headlines by putting women's rights centre stage in Bangladesh, one of the poorest countries in the wo...

Over the last decade, policies and financing decisions aiming to support low carbon resilient development within the least developed countries have...

If you had just one wish for the study of human development, what would it be? How would it advance the field? And what would it take for your visi...

This book explores the nature of regions and how they function, particularly at the local and micro-level. Whilst recent years have seen a resurgen...

This title was first published in 2003. Development is a complex and heterogeneous phenomenon, driven by the expansion of one or more sectors and t...

The book presents and further develops basic principles and concepts in international finance and open economy macroeconomics to make them more rel...

This book examines the relationship between the property market and urban economy. The stimulus for this work was provided by the seemingly ever-ac...

Uganda, like many African countries in the 1990s, adopted decentralisation as a state reform measure after many years of civil strife and political...

This book offers insight into the use of empirical diffusionist models for analysis of cross-cultural and cross-national communication, translation...

This volume shows that in todays globalized world, clusters are an important factor in explaining the different growth rates of firms, cities and r...